Neck Pain Treatment — Loveland, CO

Neck Pain Isn’t Caused by Sitting Wrong. It’s Caused by Muscles That Have Stopped Working.

Everyone tells you to sit up straight, get a better pillow, and stretch your neck. None of that fixes neck pain that’s been there for months. The real cause is almost always the same: the muscles that are supposed to hold your head up and keep your neck joints in place have stopped doing their job. The stiffness, headaches, and nerve pain down your arm are all the result. One80 finds those muscles and brings them back online.

Conditions we treat

What’s causing your neck pain?

Find your condition below. Whether it’s chronic stiffness, a pinched nerve, or post-accident pain — the root cause is almost always the same set of muscles that have switched off. We identify them and restore them.

General Neck Pain

Your head weighs about 10–12 pounds. Your neck muscles hold it up all day. When the right muscles are doing their job, that’s manageable. When they’re not — specifically when the deep front neck muscles and lower trapezius shut off — the surface muscles of your neck and upper shoulders have to do everything. They get tight, overloaded, and eventually painful.

This is why your neck feels like a rock, why you get headaches, and why it keeps tightening back up no matter how often you stretch or get a massage. When the right muscles are supporting your head and neck again, the surface muscles let go — not because we stretched them, but because they’re no longer doing the whole job themselves. Most neck pain cases at One80 resolve in 3–5 visits.

Cervical Radiculopathy (Pinched Nerve in Neck)

Pain, numbness, or tingling shooting from your neck down your shoulder and into your arm — that’s a cervical nerve being compressed. Usually by a bulging disc or a bony spur that’s grown into the space where the nerve exits the spine. The disc bulged or the bone changed because the muscles holding that part of your neck in position weren’t supporting it correctly.

We restore the deep stabilizing muscles of the neck so the spine holds its correct position and stops pressing on the nerve. In many cases, removing that abnormal pressure is enough to resolve the arm symptoms entirely — without injections or surgery. Numbness that has been present for months can resolve once the nerve compression is removed.

Whiplash

During a whiplash injury, your head snaps back and forward faster than your muscles can react. The deep muscles of the front of your neck get overwhelmed and — after the injury — they often stop working properly. When those deep muscles stay shut off, the surface muscles take over. They get chronically overloaded and tight, producing stiffness, headaches, jaw tension, shoulder pain, and sometimes brain fog or dizziness.

Rest, a soft collar, and pain medication don’t restore the deep muscles. They let the surface muscles lock everything down further. We specifically assess and restore the deep cervical flexors and stabilizers that were disrupted by the injury. When those come back online, the whole chain of whiplash symptoms starts to resolve — even years after the accident.